Kyoto Sushi & Teppanyaki — Restaurant in Hollymead

Update March 2024- We dined in and didn't mention the free meal, but they knew us. The food was once again top tier! Everything was super fresh and delightful!! Thank you so much 💓 Also, I will sat it's a shame dine in is so much smaller, but I really hope you are able to expand. We were super excited to have Kyoto return, however the experience has been less than stellar. The good: the sushi is AMAZING! I've never had bad sushi there; it's always fresh and delish. The bad: The menu was changed when we ordered last night, I was hopeful this would be good. It wasn't. We paid extra for a serving of fried rice with the beef and broccoli- ended up with two boxes of white rice. The hibachi didn't include any yum yum sauce. A couple weeks ago I added and paid for two- received four. Figured it was actually included and I didn't need to add more if I only wanted one. Would be great if that was indicated. Bought the clear soup, which has been favorful and consistent- last night the small container was literally HALF full. The crab rangoons, which we adore the flavor- weren't crunchy at all, they were soggy. We spent just under $70 on food alone, that we've loved and been glad to support a local business in the past MANY times, to get a real subpar meal. Money is getting tighter so we won't be wasting money on Kyoto anymore. There are...

Summary: The food was sub par to bad and over priced. Place was very clean and the service good. May try again but highly doubt it.

Ordered dim sum as an appetizer ..it was frozen in the middle..gross. They apologized and gave me a new one.. it tasted...off.

Had Sushi and partner had chicken and steak hibachi.

Sushi did not taste fresh. The ebi was the best and it was tasteless. The salmon tasted like plastic Tuna was, ok. Mackrel was discolored so I did not touch it. Spicy tuna roll was neither spicy nor tasted of tuna.

The tamago I ordered was practically frozen as well.

Wife's meal was super sweet like it had liquid sugar and the steak was burnt and really low quality. Veggies where under cooked.

Miso soup was not very warm and the leaves inside where slimy.

Really it was a bad experience and we where the ONLY ones there for most of our visit, they where not busy.

Really disappointed as I was told...

I’m not really a big fan of American Chinese food, it is usually either too starch heavy or too sweet, but this place has become an exception for me. Everything is flavorful without leaning too heavily towards trying to please the American palate. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still American Chinese cuisine, but it’s done very well. My favorite dish is the Singapore Mei Fun, which they absolutely nail! It’s perfect! I’m also a big fan of their fried rice, it’s simple, they don’t toss in the medley of frozen peas and carrots or other vegetables that just distract from the dish and taste like sad, it’s just the protein, shallots, rice, and flavor, just how I like it. The sushi menu is pretty good as well, I’ve never tried anything and not liked it. This place has easily my favorite American Chinese food in the entire Charlottesville area! And that’s saying something, as I’ve tried a great...